Music's Fourth Dimension
4+ still happens that the ‘relay of a musical performance from a concerthall is often fat more lively than a studio broadcast. The Lyric Harmonists’ Choir usually broadeasts from the studios of 1YA, but on Saturday, July 20, the first half of the programme was relayed from the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall. Music has loudness and softness, it has pitch and the spatial relationships of time; but it has also a fourth dimension. | This is depth, a sort of perspective which gives music the quality of hovering in aural space. Call it, if you like, liveliness. Technically the relay of the Lyric Harmonists was good in this respect, but its pléasantness was somewhat diminished by a certain uniformity of tonecolour. This may have been due to levelling up on the control panel or again it may have been due to over-enthusiasm on the part of the choir. Apart from this the choir sang a well-varied and interesting programme with an acceptable interlude by the Moya Cooper-Smith String Quartet in two movements from maven s "Emperor" Suerte:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 15
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181Music's Fourth Dimension New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 15
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